The little one calls me.

You just ‘know’

Feel tired & be at a good point to stop and pick it up later.

I set 3 key todos/outcomes for each day. When they're done, my day is "good."

It gets boring. I take the boring signal as a cue because I know I'm not going to be doing my best work henceforth.

Some days it never feels like 'enough'. Other days a solid 2 hours and I'm done because those 2 hours hit so many marks

I stop when I feel my energy fading. Recognizing your limits is part of the magic of life.🔥

Make progress every day. Quit when you're too tired/frustrated/distracted to go on. My wife lets me know when I'm working too hard, one way or another.

I hear ya. Ticking boxes for the day is a recipe for anxiety. Scheduling and extreme discipline. Allot a certain number of hours to work for the day, or a fixed slot. Are you 99% done and want the dopamine of completion? Shut down the computer. Easier said than done. I struggle with this too

when the brain stops working

Collapse on the floor and/or cry in the shower. Once I've secured myself in the fetal position with tears running down my cheeks I usually allow myself to pass out and call it a day.

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i wish i was more ambitious, but i've still got an answer "enough" is when you have spent a certain period of time with hard work "i'll build for X hours each day, so that i will make progress and still have time for life"

There’s no such thing as „enough“ for ambitious people. We keep showing up, relentlessly. Consistency. Persistence. That’s the game. We play a different game than people who chose comfort.

My body starts to feel uneasy, I need a quick lay down and hydration, mental break from the task, and then I'll feel more tinkering coming from my bones to get back up and continue. I struggle with sitting down and not doing anything, my relaxing is more like picking weeds in the garden or drawing...

I was never really able to slow down until I had a kid. Now, relaxing with her is also productive, so the incentives are aligned. 😛

Personally, I think to feel that you have done enough for the day is mainly a focused decision by yourself to calm down and relax. Appreciate what you have done so far. Especially when you are a very intellectual person and it's hard for you to stop your mind. You will always find something what ...

I have an hard cap that I won't work after dinner. The work after dinner is always low quality and will fuck up my sleep, so it's not worth it. But still, stopping at 8pm every day is still too much. I would ideally stop at 6pm, but I rarely can escape my instinct of "I'll just fix a few more thing...

brain & body (and family) tell when to pack it in each day

I never could consistently. Having kids was the only way that I could force myself to move out of “work mode”.

Sometimes I just have to stop even though a day didn't feel productive, so I can have a better one tomorrow.

stop being ambitious, works wonders

I have the same problem 😓😳🫣 When I'm too exhausted, my body shut down or I lay down and fall asleep, because otherwise my mind doesn't rest, and I have new ideas to do... 1. I stop when my body stop and force me too sleep (restless mind😅🫣😳👀) 2. I

3 reasonable items.

you follow a process and not a feeling

When wander inside after going non stop since dawn and I’m falling asleep at the table before I finish my plate it’s probably time for a small break

When the Mrs gives you that look (not the good one, the bad one).

ITS NEVER ENOUGH

When you start making brain farts

If I've earned my sleep. Im the type who can stay up for days so i have to exhust myself physically/mentally